How To Make Good Food Go Further: Recipes and Tips from The New English Kitchen

by Rose Prince

Rose Prince’s The New English Kitchen was a modern classic and a house-hold gem. Collected here are its most essential recommendations and recipes for making good food go further.

From how to stretch a native breed, properly hung cut of beef to eight meals, to making stock from prawn or langoustine shells, to saving by making your own bread (and using it right up to the last crumb), How to Make Good Food Go Further will inspire you make the absolute most of the food you buy. With brilliantly simple recipes for leftovers, cheaper cuts, and making nourishing meals from the simplest of components, it will help you discover that it is possible to eat well, and eat economically, without compromising on quality or the simple pleasure of eating good food.

131 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 13, 2014

About the author

Rose Prince is a food writer, author, cook and activist. Her writing career did not start until her mid thirties. Previously she had worked as a chef and the cook in the Notting Hill specialist bookshop, Books for Cooks. She worked there with Clarissa Dixon Wright. She was the in-house cook at the Spectator magazine for seven years.
She has a weekly column in the Daily Telegraph newspaper. Her columns are widely syndicated. She also has a monthly column in the Catholic weekly, the Tablet (although herself an Anglican she is married to a Catholic). She is a prolific writer and contributes to the Daily Mail, the Spectator, the Times, Sunday Telegraph. For three years she had a column on the Daily Express. In 2000 she produced a two-part biopic about the food writer, Elizabeth David for British broadcaster Channel 4 which also aired in Australia.
She contributes regularly to BBC Radio 4's Food Programme and was a judge for its Food and Farming Awards in 2009. She was a member of the House of Lords Committee of Inquiry into the meat industry in 2000. She was the winner of a Glenfiddich award in 2001 and in 2009 was named by Vogue magazine as one of the most inspirational women in Britain.
She is married to Dominic Prince, a fellow journalist and sometime amateur jockey and they have two children, Jack and Lara. They live in London and Dorset and Prince lists 'lunch, wine, reading and horseracing' as her recreations in Who's Who.

Reviews

[Hana Thea · Rating 5 out of 5]

Amazing cookbook that read like a nonfiction!